Last year, while grinding my way through a workday, two essential elements of my early-80s experience — that one undead-infested temple in the B2 module, and MTV — combined, after Glub knows how long in the brewin', in this altered refrain from Madonna's "Borderline":
Borderlands,
I'm fightin' skeletons with both hands,
You just keep on turning zombies,
Keep on the Bor-der-lands.
(Bor-der-lands!)

Anne and I stayed with my friends Steve and Julie when we went up to San Francisco for w00tstock. I've known Steve since high school, and Julie's sister was friends with my brother when they were younger, in case anyone was wondering how small the world actually is. Steve and I were in the same ...

My brain keeps giving me 404s when I try to get focused long enough to write this short scary story (well, I think it's scary. It has a monster in it) in time for Halloween. So I'm doing other things to try and trick it into rebooting the server, like cleaning up my house, playing with my dog, a...

I frequently mistype "editor," which, because I am an editor, is bloody pathetic. Although "Edirot" sounds like someone who sailed with Beowulf.
I also need an average of four tries to type "episode" correctly. It makes discussing TV shows or chapters of the Star Wars saga via email painfully slow.

A friend of mine showed me the most awesome picture of a little Voltron toy I think I've ever seen. It had lions for hands. This bounced around in my head for a moment, and I shared my great wisdom with Twitter, thusly: Voltron with Lions > Voltron with vehicles. THIS IS SCIENCE AND YOU CAN'T ...

I have an insane amount of work to do before Sunday night, all of it requiring a great deal of creative output. I'm already so far behind on the deadlines, I think I'm going to be up until the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us so I can get it all done. I told Anne e...

When some of the fellow D&D vets and I got to chatting online about B2 some time ago, this somehow came out of my fingers (to the refrain of Madonna's "Borderline")
Borderlands,
I'm fightin' goblins off with both hands,
You just keep on turning zombies,
Keep on the Borderlands!
(Borderlands!)

December's Geek in Review has been unleashed on an unsuspecting internet. It is all about Dungeons & Dragons, specifically … Fourth Edition [DUN DUN DUUUNNNNN!!!1] Last week, I spent an entire day playing Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition with some of my friends. "Big whoop," you say. "So did I...

When some of the fellow D&D vets and I got to chatting online about B2 some time ago, this somehow came out of my fingers (to the refrain of Madonna's "Borderline")
Borderlands,
I'm fightin' goblins off with both hands,
You just keep on turning zombies,
Keep on the Borderlands!
(Borderlands!)

December's Geek in Review has been unleashed on an unsuspecting internet. It is all about Dungeons & Dragons, specifically … Fourth Edition [DUN DUN DUUUNNNNN!!!1] Last week, I spent an entire day playing Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition with some of my friends. "Big whoop," you say. "So did I...

Writing fiction is a scary, solitary experience for me. Eventually, I get stuff to Andrew and we start working together to hammer out the final draft, but I write my first draft with the door closed, as Stephen King advises, and it can be a lonely time, with Self Doubt and the Inner Critic dropp...

Writing fiction is a scary, solitary experience for me. Eventually, I get stuff to Andrew and we start working together to hammer out the final draft, but I write my first draft with the door closed, as Stephen King advises, and it can be a lonely time, with Self Doubt and the Inner Critic dropp...